About the latency/routing issue in FC 27

I can confirm that the same issue appears to affect Russia as well.

I have now done a controlled test from Moscow on PS5. With my normal Russian connection, FC 27 consistently selects a Frankfurt game endpoint and I get around 42-44 ms.

When I route the same PS5 connection through a Polish VPN, FC switches to a Warsaw game endpoint and the latency immediately drops to a stable 23-25 ms.

I also tested Finland and Germany:

Direct Russia: 42-44 ms

Finland VPN: 42-46 ms

Germany VPN: 46-54 ms

Poland VPN / Warsaw: 23-25 ms

I tested different networking equipment and another ISP as well, so this does not appear to be a local router or home connection issue. The most important finding is that FC is selecting different game data centers depending on the source IP:

Russian IP -> Frankfurt -> ~43 ms

Polish IP -> Warsaw -> ~24 ms

This seems very similar to the problem reported here by players from Romania, Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe after the July 29 maintenance.

I posted the full technical report, including the actual UDP game endpoints and traceroute, here:  

https://forums.ea.com/discussions/fc-27-technical-issues-en/russia-fc-27-routing-issue---warsaw-vs-frankfurt/13722045

It would be useful if EA could investigate whether the game data center selection logic for Eastern European and Russian IP ranges changed after the July 29 maintenance.